On Monday morning, Greenpeace published classified
documents from the closed-door [TTIP] negotiations. Even if the papers only
convey the current state of negotiations and do not document the end
results, they still confirm the worst suspicions of critics of TTIP.

The 248 pages show that bargaining is taking place behind the
scenes, even in areas which the EU and the German government have
constantly maintained were sacrosanct. These include standards on the
environment and consumer protection; the precautionary principle, a
stricter EU policy that sets high hurdles for potentially dangerous
products; the legislative self-determination of the countries involved,
etc. Even the pledge made on the European side that there would be no
arbitration courts has turned out to be wishful thinking. So far, the Americans [Obama admin.] have insisted on the old style of arbitration court."...

The EU is planning
to implement parts of the agreement even before national parliaments
are provided with the opportunity to vote on it.

The German government's secrecy in its TTIP dealings is "not worthy
of a democracy," says businesswoman Brigitte Grübler, 46. She's been
joined at the meeting by the CEO of a mid-sized company as well as a
former top Siemens executive.

A large share of the recruits to the anti-TTIP movement come from
the more educated parts of society, as indicated by a survey conducted
by TNS Enmid, one of Germany's leading pollsters.

More
on secret non-trade aspects of TTIP: Formerly free people would now be
ruled by unelected, unaccountable multinational corporations and global
courts. As slaves, we'd be required to pay all their expenses. The
entire US political class already views us as global slaves, so they're
fine with this:

“It’s
designed to carry forward the neoliberal project to maximize profit and
domination, and to set the working people in the world in competition
with one another so as to lower wages to increase insecurity,” Chomsky
said during an interview with HuffPost Live....